Word: amalienborg
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...other kings fared better. Five years after Hitler's motorized armies swarmed into Denmark, King Christian X emerged from his self-imposed retirement at Amalienborg and returned to his capital. The long night of German occupation was over...
...committing suicide. Some were trying to escape to Sweden, some were scuttled by their crews where they lay. German planes caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...
...with the mutually respectful understanding of a company's top executive and a minor employe. In this role Christian X has been one of Denmark's most valued Kings, for his people rate him as sensible as he is imposing. His preference for living in the Amalienborg Palace, one of four identical rococo buildings which rub shoulders with shops, hotels and private houses, instead of in vast Christiansborg Palace with its golden crown looming into the sky and including the Houses of Parliament and Denmark's Supreme Court, they regard as a demonstration of good judgment rather...
...cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed to help. With a tight-lipped grin King Christian remounted, rode back to Amalienborg Castle as though nothing had happened. That evening, none the worse for his fall, he entertained at dinner...
...Association which appealed to city folk: "Go down to the street, find a farmer, and invite him to spend the night with you!" Response was so wholehearted that all 50,000 farmers had been comfortably bedded and adequately breakfasted by sagacious city folk before they set out to mob Amalienborg Palace...